Article about "The Post-OOP Paradigm"

Marco Paga mail at marco-paga.de
Fri Mar 14 08:17:36 UTC 2003


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On Thursday 13 March 2003 22:05, Jack Johnson wrote:
> Marco Paga wrote:
> > I don't know what the development brings after OOP but the only way in
> > GUI research is 3D displays. The computer comes again a step closer to
> > the human mind.
>
> Power comes not from accurately modelling reality but from carefully
> abstracting reality into useful metaphors.  A 3D environment isn't
> better because it's what comes after 2D, it's only potentially better
> because it gives us yet another dimension in which to conceive new
> metaphors.
>

You didn't got my point. Let's assume that the human mind thinks with objects. 
So it would be the most natural way to use 3D objects to represent this.
When we use objects in Smalltalk these objects come closer to our mind because 
it is more the way we think then writing bytes in an register.

regards
marco
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